Connections drive growth. Roman and Inca roads, the Mongol horse relay, naval signals and, eventually, the global telegraph network were all essential for the success of their civilisations because knowledge is power.
For 100 years, Britain led the world because Britons were the first to know.
The success of 20th-century Britain relied on a groundbreaking underwater network of thousands of miles of copper cables: the All Red Line, completed in 1902 by the Eastern Telegraph Company, connecting every territory of the Empire back to London.
Fast-forward a century and things couldn’t be more different. The country that wired the planet can no longer
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